Measuring the moisture in the Earth's soil - advancing the science with ESA's SMOS mission

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Aug 2003

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ESA Bulletin (ISSN 0376-4265), No. 115, p. 40 - 45 (2003)

Physics

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Space Missions: Earth

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ESA's second Earth Explorer Opportunity Mission, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) mission scheduled for launch in early 2007, is currently in the design and development phase. Given that today's lack of global observations of ocean salinity and soil moisture is holding back progress in many environment-related research fields, the mission has broad and ambitious scientific objectives, the validity of which is internationally recognised. This article therefore focuses on the activities dedicated to advancing our knowledge of the "brightness temperature" associated with microwave radiation emitted by the Earth's land surfaces and thereby our ability to retrieve reliable soil-moisture data.

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